The Epic Mirror
How did Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century use epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age? Winner of the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize The Epic Mirror studies how Spanish-American writers...
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| description | How did Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century use epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age? Winner of the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize The Epic Mirror studies how Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century used epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age. The wars about which they wrote took place at the frontiers of the Spanish empire, where new political communities were emerging: fiercely independent Amerindian republics, rebellious Spanish settlers, maroon kingdoms of fugitive African slaves. This colonial reality generated a distinctive vision of just warfare and political community. Working across the fields of Hispanic literature, the history of political thought, and studies of empire, colonialism and globalisation, Choi reinterprets three major works of colonial Latin American literature: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace? This title is available under the Open Access Licence CC BY-NC-ND |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1766692026-06-04T06:52:47Z The Epic Mirror Choi, Imogen Epic Mirror Poetry Conflict Ethics Political Community Colonial Peru Spanish-American Writers Veterans Sixteenth Century Seventeenth Century Ethical Solutions Violent Conflicts Spanish Empire Political Communities Amerindian Republics Spanish Settlers Maroon Kingdoms Just Warfare Colonial Reality Hispanic Literature History of Political Thought Empire Colonialism Globalization Alonso de Ercilla La Araucana Pedro de Oña Arauco domado Juan de Miramontes Zuázola Armas antárticas Viceregal Peru Peace Search for Solutions Vision of Warfare Literature Conquests Americas Africa Asia Europe Irreconcilable World Views thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry and poets thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general How did Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century use epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age? Winner of the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize The Epic Mirror studies how Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century used epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age. The wars about which they wrote took place at the frontiers of the Spanish empire, where new political communities were emerging: fiercely independent Amerindian republics, rebellious Spanish settlers, maroon kingdoms of fugitive African slaves. This colonial reality generated a distinctive vision of just warfare and political community. Working across the fields of Hispanic literature, the history of political thought, and studies of empire, colonialism and globalisation, Choi reinterprets three major works of colonial Latin American literature: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace? This title is available under the Open Access Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2026-05-20T07:58:26Z 2026-05-20T07:58:26Z 2026-05-19T10:09:48Z 20220218 2022 book ONIX_20260519T105717_9781800103573_8 2633-7061 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113039 9781800103573 9781800103580 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176669 eng Monografías A open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113039/1/9781800103573.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113039/1/9781800103573.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113039/1/9781800103573.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113039/1/9781800103573.pdf Boydell & Brewer Tamesis Books 7b5beb75-2e34-4246-8da6-875fc8894f70 9781800103573 9781800103580 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Boydell&Brewer: LatinAmerican Studies Frontlist and Backlist 2026 KU Partner Collections 2026 Tamesis Books 240 Woodbridge open access |
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